IYT International Bareboat Skipper

This IYT 7 days course is for sailors with previous sailing experience as a crew member and who have obtained their international flotilla certificate or equivalent. You will be trained to take over a sail boat for short passages by day and be in charge of the safety of your crew and your boat. By the end of this course you should also know how to make a really good coffee.

Course objective: Prepare sailors to skipper a vessel on short passages by day
Pre Course Experience: International Flotilla skipper or equivalent, 200NM and 10 days at sea
Assumed knowledge: A good command of sailing and crew handling
Duration: 5 days
Cost: contact us

What will I learn?

More compass and chartwork

Even more Meteorology

Passage planning

Pilotage

Rules of the road (IRPCS)

Estimated Position – Running fix

Man over board under Sail

Engine maintenance

Crew handling

Marinas

Instruments (GPS – Chart plotter – Radar – AIS – AutoPilot, etc…)

VHF

What’s next?

With this certificate you can charter a boat anywhere in the world for day trips. For those of you who want to explore the oceans a bit further, it is time to consider becoming a IYT Coastal Yachtmaster. For those who want to have a deeper understanding of marine engines and navigation we offer a course on inboard/outboard engines and celestial navigation.

More details

The IYT International Bareboat Skipper Course is the final step to become a recognizedskipper and be able to charter your own boat anywhere. This course introduces the experienced sailor to further in depth handling of a yacht.At the end of these 5 days course you will have become knowledgeable abouta cruising yacht and the command of a crew.

This course is both theoretical and practical. In our comfortable classroom, we will deepen your knowledge of navigation, including further techniques for estimating your position with running fixes, taking into account leeway,passage planning, further understanding of tides and meteorology, rules of the sea (IRPCS), instruments such as radar and AIS, engine troubleshooting and maintenance.

During your practical session, you will be the skipper of our fully equipped 45 foot cruising yacht and your qualified IYT instructor will devote plenty of time to supervise your command of the crew and vessel during emergency situations.

You will be asked to write a detailed navigation and piloting passage plan for a day trip, including calculating distances, bearings, tidal heights, tidal streams, safety anchorage. While sailing, you will keep an accurate log of the ship, plot your position using running fix and compare it with a GPS fix. You will be asked to navigate with the radar. During that trip someone will definitively fall off the boat just when your engine fails to start and you will supervise the Man Over Board rescue operation under sail only.

More compass and chartwork. To the Compass Magnetic Variation learn in “International Flotilla Skipper” course, we will then add the Compass Deviation due to metal interference on the boat and build a Deviation Chart.

Even more Meteorology. What is a weather front ? What happens when a cold front meets a warm front ? How is a depression formed ? We will look at converging and diverging winds. By the end of this course you will know the difference between a Stratocumulus and a Nimbostatus cloud and what they mean for the weather.

Passage planning. If you plan a multi day trip, care should be taken to formulate a proper Passage Plan. Since the Titanic incident … this is the law even for leisure ships since 2005! Is your boat capable of the voyage ? Is your crew able ? Do you have all the maps, weather forecast, tide tables before you leave ? Will you take Aunt Martha ?

Rules of the road (IRPCS). You know quite a bit about IRPCS already … but there is more. We will look at all the types of vessels and their various order of priority.

Estimated Position – Running fix. You will learn how to determine your position with a single point of reference and time. This complements our 2/3 point fix techniques.

Man over board under Sail. Aunt Martha has done it again and is now floating away when the engine won’t start. Too bad for Aunt Martha ? Nope. We will teach you how to retrieve a person over board under sail.

Engine maintenance. A good diesel engine will outlive you if you treat it well. We will go over the various maintenance aspects of a marine engine; from oil change to filter change, to impeller verification, testing the charge of the alternator, checking the batteries under load …

Crew handling. How do you tell your crew to put their life jacket, prepare for tacking, organize the mooring procedure, tell Uncle Bob to stop abusing the rum bottle in the morning ? Now you are the captain and in charge of communicating with your crew with a precise, assertive yet diplomatic language.

Marinas. Eventually we all have to go back to a marina. This is the dreadful moment when we enter an overcrowded space and have to squeeze our boat in between 2 large catamarans without scratching the hull. We will look at different approach techniques depending on the wind/tide directions. How do we safely secure the boat to the jetty ? What are spring lines ? Answers in this class.

Instruments (GPS – Chart plotter – Radar – AIS – AutoPilot,etc…) Back in the days of Joshua Slocum, marine instruments meant just a compass. He did not even use a chronometer when he circumnavigated the world. Fast forward a hundred years and now most boats have as much electronics as a the latest Airbus. We will look extensively at the GPS of course but also the various instruments that help with navigation from wind meters to AIS, radar, autopilot … all except the Sextant which is in the Yachtmaster Ocean class.

VHF. Having Aunt Martha on the boat and no more Gin Tonic may not be a valid reason to send a Mayday signal on the VHF but a fire or an unconscious person or a hole in the hull is pretty serious and outside help from the coastguards or nearby vessels will demand issuing an emergency message on channel 16. We will teach you VHF etiquette and how to properly formulate a “mayday” and “panpan” messages or what to do if you want to call uncle Bob on the VHF. This is a certified VHF course which is mandatory for obtaining your skipper license but won’t be required if you already have this certificate.

Palawan Sailing courses start at 9:30am and finish at around 4:30pm.
We have a maximum of 4 students per boat and a minimum of 2 students. It is recommended that you contact us to book your IYT – International Bareboat Skipper course.
Call +886 918996671 (please remember the time difference with Taiwan : UTC/GMT +8 hours) to inquire or book or use our contact form.

IYT – International Bareboat Skipper Course

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You can pay by cash or Paypal. All our prices are fixed.Our course package includes:boat rental and IYT instructive materials, instructor’s fee, warm lunch made from fresh local ingredients. Note : All our courses have to be paid in Taiwan Dollars. The prices in US$ are informative.